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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 6, 2015

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MK Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) at the Knesset on November 10, 2014. (Photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Jewish Home wins Justice Ministry, but balks at Likud limitations

By Stuart Winer

Likud negotiators give in to demand from Naftali Bennett that his party receive legal portfolio, but impose restrictions

Orson Welles in 'The Third Man' (Courtesy of The Criterion Collection)

Orson Welles, enfant terrible who pranked the world, was Jewy

By Jordan Hoffman

100 years to the innovative filmmaker’s birth, a look at his connections to the ‘Chosen People’

Sarah Sackman. (courtesy)

In London, a close race where British Jewish voters matter most

Jewish Labour candidate Sarah Sackman may just win Finchley and Golders Green, with no help from her party’s stance on Israel

Opposition Labor Party leader Ed Miliband takes part in the "BBC Question Time: Election Leaders Special" television program at Leeds Town Hall in Leeds, northern England on April 30, 2015. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO / POOL / STEFAN ROUSSEAU)

5 things to know about Ed Miliband before Thursday’s UK election

By Gabe Friedman

Ed Miliband, the leader of Britain's Labour Party, takes a question during an election campaign news conference, April 29, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Matt Dunham, File)

Substance or style? UK’s Miliband banks on geek appeal

By DANICA KIRKA

Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Coalition deal close, but small ‘gaps’ said to remain

By Marissa Newman

Hours to the deadline, Netanyahu offers Justice Ministry to Jewish Home’s Shaked, with conditions

Michael Dickson

The misleading of Lauryn Hill

Plain and simple: Vicious, anti-Israel online extremists bullied the singer into canceling her Israel concert

The real boycott of Israel

A one-word message to the American Jews who are staying away in droves: Aliya

Baltimore and an empty baseball stadium

The lesson of social inequality is to raise our voices and stand with those that are marginalized

Osnat Terunech discusses the racially charged argument with her teacher at College Peer Tafnit Holon, on May 5, 2015. (screen capture: Channel 2 news)

Teacher suspended for telling student to ‘go back to Ethiopia’

By Judah Ari Gross

Video surfaces showing racially charged argument in the classroom; lecturer says ‘Ethiopians are taking over the country’

Ethiopian Israelis march in an anti-police brutality demonstration in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on Sunday, May 3, 2015. (photo credit: Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel staff)

Four Ethiopian-Israeli protesters indicted over riot

Charges include assaulting police officers, rioting and resisting arrest at Sunday’s protest in Tel Aviv

Explosions at a Khartoum munitions plant in October 2012. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Sudan denies attack after ‘foreign’ planes said to hit military site

By Joshua Davidovich

Witnesses claim jets hitting area near Khartoum may have been Israeli, but army spokesman says no strike, though anti-aircraft fire used on object in sky

Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset on May 4, 2015. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

US eyes coalition talks warily, but policy shift unlikely until Iran deal settled

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Washington might actually prefer a wafer-thin right-wing government for now, says one analyst, so that Netanyahu has to reach out to Herzog with less leverage later

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Thursday, March 20, 2014, (photo credit: AP/Office of the Supreme Leader)

Khamenei to US: Your military ‘can’t do a damn thing’ to us

By Stuart Winer and AFP

Iranian leader reacts boastfully, angrily to what he says were warnings by two Washington officials that the US could strike his nuclear facilities

This photo shows the Ten Commandments written on one of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem. (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)

Oldest complete copy of Ten Commandments goes on display in Israel

By Daniel Estrin

Part of 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls, fragile biblical manuscript has never before been shown here

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visiting troops, April 20, 2014. (AFP/HO/SANA)

Syria’s Assad says defeats don’t mean war is lost

By AFP

President’s comments at a Damascus school were the first since a string of regime losses in Idlib province

Israel Zangwill was an ardent suffragist and worked alongside his wife Edith and her family, helping to establish United Suffragists, one of the later campaign organizations. (courtesy)

Jewish sister suffragettes on display in new UK exhibition

Al-Jazeera America

Al Jazeera America denies being anti-Semitic, sexist, anti-US

By JTA

CEO dismisses charges leveled by former employee, who claims his boss made derogatory remarks about Israel, women and America

Lag B'Omer celebrations on Mt. Meron in 2013. (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Throngs to mob tomb, set country on fire for holiday

By Rahel Jaskow

Hundreds of thousands expected at Meron burial site of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, as others mark Lag B’Omer with bonfires

Or Asraf seen in the Himalayas. (Screen capture: Channel 2 via Facebook)

Remains of Israeli hiker killed in Nepal quake return to Israel

Body of Or Asraf arrives at Ben-Gurion Airport, will be laid to rest in hometown Lehavim on Wednesday

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Illustrative photo of a falcon with its young (photo credit: Haim Shohat/Flash90)

Flight safetyBird’s nest grounds international airport

By Stuart Winer

Clyde Hutchinson (photo credit: Courtesy)

Irish group pushes airlines for direct Dublin-Tel Aviv route

By David Shamah

The University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa (Samuel Molepo/CC BY-SA 3.0)

University ousts student president, but not for Nazi sympathies

By JTA

Dramatic footage emerged Tuesday May 5, 2015, filmed by a crew member, showing a Mediterranean Sea rescue of migrants on a sinking rubber boat desperately clambering up ropes and a ladder from the cargo ship Zeran that came to their aid on May 3, 2015, in the sea between Libya and Sicily. Five bodies were recovered and were brought ashore Tuesday along with the migrant survivors to the port in Catania, Sicily, Italy. (photo credit: AP)

Moments from safety, migrants die trying to reach Europe

By Trisha Thomas, Andrea Rosa and Frank Jordans

An El Al plane taxis into Ben Gurion International Airport (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Hope for better travel as El Al extends hand to start-ups

By David Shamah

Hebrew media reviewDown to the last minute

By Ilan Ben Zion

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